Prehistory and Plug & Play Genetics

June 2, 2018

AS NOTED EARLIER THIS WEEK at SCIENCE DIALOGUES, the popular science monthly Scientific American has now published a lengthy and decidedly critical commentary on current practice in the new field of paleogenetics .

At present it looks like the hype promoting paleogenetics research far exceeds the actual performance.

But who knows what the future will bring once human geneticists realize that there are no simple ways to connect the dots between human genes and the realities of human history.